Thousands in Florida Sign Up to Shoot Guns at Hurricane Irma

At 10 A.M. local time on Sunday, more than 24,000 people are seemingly on board to stop Hurricane Irma in its tracks in the most Florida way possible: with guns. And should those RSVPed attendees fail, the Facebook group "Shoot at Hurricane Irma" has 52,000 maybes in reserve to call on. It's the most direct action plan to fight climate change and extreme weather yet, because what could be more hands-on than literally fighting climate change? Honestly, it's surprising no one in Texas tried this with Harvey.

But the description of the event reads "LOOKING WINDY HEADASS NAMED IRMA SAID THEY PULLING UP ON US" and "LETS SHOW IRMA THAT WE SHOOT FIRST." This is...not real. Scrolling through the comments proves that. What is real is the sense of helplessness in front of the biggest storm to ever come out of the Atlantic, that feeling when all you can do is wait and you have no idea if things will be okay or not. The creator, Ryon Johnson, even told the BBC he made the event out of "stress and boredom," which are the two overwhelming things you feel when waiting for a hurricane to hit. Sometimes you need something goofy as hell.

And it's inspired plenty of spin-offs, events that are rallying people to throw whatever they have at the storm. Like "Spinning your arms really fast to push away Hurricane Irma" (more likely to work) and "Yell like Goku at Hurricane Irma if it comes to Tampa" (criminally under-RSVPed at 2300).

It does bear repeating that if you're in Florida you shouldn't try to shoot at an extreme weather event. Marco Rubio for one thinks it's best everyone stay inside, and while we can't fault his logic, we can give him grief for how he expressed it:

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